Foreigners select silk handicrafts at a store in Xiushui Market (Silk Street market), a popular tourist market, in Beijing on August 13, 2008. Many foreign athletes, reporters and officials from across the world visit the market selling items with Chinese characteristics during the Beijing Olympic Games and the tourists flow comes to 45,000 persons a day. Tourists from over 80 countries and regions have ordered more than 3,000 made-to-measure clothes at the market from August 1 to 11.

(Xinhua News Agency August 16, 2008)